Napkins – Quotes

The big success stories

The big success stories – Facebook, Zynga and Twitter – are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing. Eric Lefkofsky

When you start a

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They’re really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches. Eric Kripke

Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides … Read more

What we want, we

What we want, we have for our pains The promise that if we but wait Till the want has burned out of our brains, Every means shall be present to state; While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold, While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old, When we’ve matched our buttons … Read more

I know I exaggerated

I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I’m just mobbin like that. Drake

I’m afraid that my

I’m afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about my hand. Men tend to be very colorful when you’re picking shrapnel out of them. Diana Gabaldon

I still like paper

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins. Demetri Martin

I find that a

I find that a shirt is most similar to a napkin when I don’t have a napkin. Demetri Martin

I like things to

I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob’s Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there’s lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It’s a thick shake. In a … Read more

There are two good

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a … Read more